Tom DeLonge

Thomas Matthew DeLonge (born 13 December 1975) is an American musician (co-founder and vocalist of Blink-182), author and entrepreneur who became the unlikeliest catalyst of modern UAP disclosure when he founded the To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA) in 2017. Over several years he built confidential relationships with senior government and intelligence figures such as Luis Elizondo, Harold Puthoff, Jim Semivan (CIA) and Christopher Mellon and brought them on board at TTSA. The organisation released the now-famous Pentagon UAP videos FLIR1, Gimbal and GoFast.

• Co-founder and vocalist of the rock band Blink-182; author and entrepreneur
• Founded To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA) in 2017 as a public benefit corporation
• Cultivated relationships with Luis Elizondo, Harold Puthoff, Jim Semivan (CIA) and Christopher Mellon
• TTSA released the Pentagon UAP videos FLIR1, Gimbal and GoFast
• Facilitated Luis Elizondo's public transition from Pentagon insider to UAP advocate
• Delivered metamaterial samples to the U.S. Army under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA)
• Controversial but influential style: a pop-culture-powered bridge between the disclosure community and government insiders

Precisely because DeLonge is neither a classical witness nor a traditional researcher but a musician and entrepreneur, he was able to move insiders whom a conventional UFO advocate would hardly have reached. His significance for the UAP timeline lies in that bridging role: without TTSA there would be no Pentagon videos in the New York Times, no Elizondo exit, no modern disclosure wave — which makes DeLonge one of the rare pop-culture figures whose contribution to UAP history reaches beyond mere attention.